Water Resources Management Under Climate Variability – Overview Of CADSWES Projects And Tools

Zagona , Edie 1 ; Rajagopalan , Balaji 2 1 Research Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and Director, Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES) 2 Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences...

Groundwater Flow Simulation Of Uranium In-Situ Leach Mining In Northern Colorado

Yoshino , Miori 1 ; Ge , Shemin 2 1 University of Colorado 2 University of Colorado A uranium deposit in north-central Colorado is under consideration for in-situ leach mining. The stratigraphy of the area includes, in ascending order, the Pierre Shale, the Fox Hills sandstone, and the Laramie Formation...

Decadal Changes In Climate And Hydrological Responses In High Elevation Catchments, Colorado Front Range

Williams , Mark W 1 ; Hill , Ken 2 ; Caine , Nel 3 1 CU-Boulder 2 National Park Service 3 CU-Boulder Potential climate impacts on the hydrochemistry of two seasonally snow covered catchments is evaluated using 24 years of data from Niwot Ridge Long Term Ecological Research Site,...

Stoichiometric Control Of Organic Carbon-Nitrate Relationships From Soils To The Sea

Taylor , Philip G 1 ; Townsend , Alan R 2 1 University of Colorado 2 University of Colorado Human creation of reactive nitrogen has risen an order of magnitude since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. This dramatic reorganization of a global biogeochemical cycle has brought substantial benefits, but...

Interactions Between Turbulent Mixing And Broadcast Spawning

Soltys , Michael 1 ; Crimaldi , John P 2 1 University of Colorado 2 University of Colorado Turbulent fluid flow plays an important role in many physical and biological mixing processes. This is exemplified by broadcast spawning, the reproductive strategy used by corals and many other marine invertebrates. When...

Search For The Origins Of Dissolved Organic Matter In A Supraglacial Stream On The Cotton Glacier, Antarctica

SanClements , Michael 1 ; McKnight , Diane 2 ; Chin , Yu-Ping 3 ; Foreman , Christine 4 ; Kilduff , Chip 5 1 INSTAAR, University of Colorado at Boulder 2 INSTAAR, University of Colorado at Boulder 3 Ohio State University 4 Montana State University 5 Rensselear Polytechnic Institute...

A Radar-Based Climatology Of High Precipitation Events In The European Alps: 2000-2008

Rudolph , James V 1 ; Friedrich , Katja 2 ; Germann , Urs 3 1 University of Colorado, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 2 University of Colorado, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 3 MeteoSwiss Characterizing and quantifying precipitation on temporal and spatial scales in mountainous regions is essential for better understanding...

Public Perceptions Of Tsunamis And Tsunami Warning Signs In Los Angeles

Rosati , Antonia 1 1 Santa Monica College After the devastating December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, California and other coastal states began installing "Tsunami Warning Zone" and "Evacuation Route" signs at beaches and major access roads. The geography of the Los Angeles area may not be conducive to signage alone...

Generation Of Colored And Fluorescent Dissolved Organic Matter By Alpine Lake Bacteria

Reche , Isabel 1 ; Mladenov , Natalie 2 ; Ortega , Eva 3 2 Presenting Author 1 Universidad de Granada 2 INSTAAR, University of Colorado 3 Laboratoire d’Oceanographie Microbienne de Banyuls The conversion of labile dissolved organic matter (DOM) into refractory DOM has consequences for the maintenance of DOM...

Combining Remote Sensing And Isotopic Analysis To Determine The Contribution Of Snow- And Ice-Melt To Streamflow In The Nepal Himalaya: A Multi-Scale Approach

Racoviteanu , Adina E 1 ; Armstrong , Richard 2 ; Williams , Mark W. 3 ; Alford , Don 4 ; Cowie , Rory 5 1 Dept of Geography and Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado 2 National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado...

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